Local tryouts and auditions

Posted November 26, 2009 10:00 pm

Daily Herald Staff Report

• The American Academy of Art seeks students to submit works for the Annual Student Holiday Show and Sale set to run from Thursday, Dec. 3, through Friday, Dec. 18, in the Bill L. Parks Gallery, 332 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Call (312) 461-0600, ext. 103, for more information.

• The North Shore Choral Society has chorus auditions at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 3637 Golf Road, Evanston. Call (847) 272-2351 or visit northshorechoral.org for more information.

• Elgin Community College has free audition workshops for its upcoming production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from 7 to 10 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 30, in Room 284D at the Visual and Performing Arts Center, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. Full-fledged auditions are from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, and from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5. Call (847) 214-7587 or visit eccartscenter.com for more information.

• The Wilmette Park District's North Shore Theater of Wilmette has auditions for Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic drama "Crimes of the Heart" from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, at the Community Recreation Center, 3000 Glenview Road, Wilmette. Those auditioning are asked to prepare a two-minute monologue. Call (847) 256-9694 for more information.

• The Highland Park Players has auditions for "Snoopy!!! The Musical" from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 8-9, at the West Ridge Center, 636 Ridge Road, Highland Park. Casting is for men and women ages 14 and older. Call (847) 604-4771 or visit highlandparkplayers.com for more information.

• The Black Box Theatre at McHenry County College has auditions for the Stephen Schwartz musical "Pippin" from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday, Dec. 7 and 9, in Room D167 at 8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake. For more information, call (815) 455-8746.

• GreenMan Theatre has auditions for its upcoming murder-mystery dinner theater production of "Speakeasy or Die Hard" at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, and at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14-15, at the First United Methodist Church, 232 S. York Road, Elmhurst. Call (630) 464-2646 or visit greenmantheatre.com for information.

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